HRS §712-1276
Costs and expenses
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗This section says that when a court closes a building or enforces an order stopping people involved in a nuisance from entering it, the court can make the losing side pay the winner's reasonable lawyer fees, court costs, and other expenses. It only covers these costs, not other rules.
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The statute, as written — Costs and expenses
A copy, taken August 20, 2026. The version published by the Legislature is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
For any attorneys' fees, costs, or expenses incurred in the closing of the building, premises, or place and keeping it closed, or incurred in enforcing the injunction prohibiting the person or persons causing, maintaining, aiding, abetting, or permitting the nuisance from residing or entering into the building, premises, or place in or upon which the nuisance exists, as well as the attorneys' fees, costs, and expenses incurred by the party bringing the action, a reasonable sum shall be allowed by the court.
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